What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
3 weeks ago
What shall it profit a people to lack shame? What does it really profit a nation of over 180 million people to consistently platform and promote individuals with an addiction to humiliation? There comes a time when one must sit back, rest their hands on their head, exhale, and declare that it all doesn’t make […]
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My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
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Aanu Adeoye is a journalist at a major newspaper and author working on his debut nonfiction book about Africa’s emerging geopolitics. Here, he takes us through his use of the internet as both a tool for work and a distraction to be avoided. Who are you? What do you do? Who am I? What a […]
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Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions without being forced or unduly pressured by others.
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Did you know that there are approximately 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide? Can you imagine all the different ways in which we all use the internet? Obasanjo’s Internet is our interview series where we speak to some of our internet favourites on how they relate to the internet and what it means to them […]
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Kenneth Nnebue’s 1992 blockbuster, Living in Bondage marked the beginning of an era in the Nigerian film industry. The story which follows a man who ritually sacrificed his devoted wife in exchange for quick wealth and fortune was a hit, selling about 750,000 copies in total. Hence, Living in Bondage is considered the pioneer film […]
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Cyphers have come to form an integral part of Nigeria’s rap industry. They originated as part of early American Hip-hop culture, where rappers would get together in a circle and freestyle to a single beat, with many of these lines often directed derogatorily at one another in battle-rap style. These little bouts of rap, combative […]
2 years ago
Did you know that there are approximately 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide? Can you imagine all the different ways in which we all use the internet? Obasanjo’s Internet is our interview series where we speak to some of our internet favourites on how they relate to the internet and what it means to them […]
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Akuchi’s No Games advocates for persevering in spite of opposition. It is produced by Oladimeji Obiremi, who sets it to a somber Trap beat, one Akuchi matches with rap verses, his tone alternating between defiance and bluster. Akuchi’s aesthetic rails against convention, with his American-style delivery, a counterintuitive choice at a time when both Nigerian […]
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“Shayo no dey Heaven, so allow me make I chop life,” goes a line in Kowa, encapsulating the song’s hedonism. This call to pleasure and play is set to an equally playful beat bearing the markings of Nigerian street pop. The song even bears the genre’s linguistic character, its lyrics partially delivered in Yoruba. The […]
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Unlike typical faith-based Nigerian productions, such as Mount Zion films, that are tailored to strictly propagate the gospel through the depiction of Christian spirituality, Breath of Life walks the line between religion and secularism. Part of the film’s impetus is derived from religious philosophy, yet the film advances towards a heterogeneous audience, spewing themes like […]
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2023 was a terrific year for Nigerian film. As in the year before, Nollywood doubled down on her efforts to improve filmmaking culture through the production and distribution of more quality Nigerian films. While such Nollywood films are not impeccable in form and content, the filmmakers made laudable attempts to push their narratives in the […]
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